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Have you tasted alcohol?

 
Though the drinking age in the U.S. has been 21 for nearly three decades, many states have exceptions for alcohol consumption by minors, often when in the company of a family member. So while it’s not outlandish that tweens and teens have sipped alcohol before their 21st birthdays, it does come as a surprise that one-third of third graders surveyed in a new study have tasted beer, wine or liquor.

 

Researchers studied 1,050 mothers and their third-grade kids to see if children were being purposefully introduced to alcohol at a young age, and, if so, to find out why. They discovered that one in four mothers believe that allowing kids to taste alcoholic beverages when they're young will discourage them from drinking recklessly as tweens and teens.

 

According to The Huffington Post, however, these parents couldn’t be more wrong. Past studies have found that fifth-graders who were allowed to have alcohol by their parents are twice as likely to report recent alcohol use in seventh grade, and those who begin drinking before age 15 are six times more likely to develop problems with alcohol than those who start drinking at 21. Yikes!

 

What do you think of this study, babe? Do your parents let you sip from their drinks at home?
 
 

BY BRITTANY TAYLOR ON 9/24/2012 5:27:00 PM

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my bff and i are crushing on the same guy. he's told me he likes me and has also said he really doesn't like her (even as a friend), but i can't bring myself to tell her. one of her other friends made out with a different guy she liked and she's never forgiven her. You may think that's justified, but this friend told her she liked the same guy as she did and she told her to go for it, then when she found out they kissed she flipped out. I can't tell her we like each other cuz she'll either bawl her eyes out or strangle me. she's getting all clingy to him and i don't like it, but even if i tell her he likes me she'll just get a thousand times more clingy to him. what do i do??? Frown




Hey girl, I think you've got to let him make the message clear. That's his job, not yours. Just continue being a friend to your pal. She may not want to hang with you if you and this guy get together. And that's understandable from her end: she's hurt. But be patient and continue being there. She'll come back someday.

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by zoey_27 on 9/24/2012 8:23:56 PM

 
 

fyi, people who say they tried it and like it, a scientific study say that cigarettes and alcohol literally take the sheen out of your hair and it will be totally dull, idk about you, but that is a deal breaker

by lemonlime123 on 9/24/2012 8:17:18 PM

 
 

I honestly think that letting them drink sips of their parents wine or beer every once in awhile when they are young (say, before 10 or 9), it will help them not want to drink alcohol as a teen because they never tried it. I think this because I honestly have never heard of one kid at this age who has liked alcohol when they have tried some of their parents. When and if they are exposed to it while hanging out with friends as a teen, they can refer back to this memory and remember how disgusting it tasted.

by LovePeaceHope on 9/24/2012 8:03:34 PM

 
 

No way! It smells horrible to me anyway, and I bet it tastes just as bad. I never want to try it. Yucckkk

by taylorswiftfan1233 on 9/24/2012 8:00:32 PM

 
 

That is kind of scary, but my parents don't believe in letting their kids try it before 21. One of my friends though when she was 5 she drank 5 glasses of "apple juice" because she thought that's what it was, but actually it was beer!

by WinnieGirlie on 9/24/2012 7:56:28 PM

 
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